Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

What you will do

• Regional & Global Category Leadership: Strategically lead and manage procurement of local Indirect Materials across South-East Asia, while supporting Global Categories

• Category & Country Strategy Execution: Define, implement, and execute procurement category and country strategies, managing regional and global spend, sourcing initiatives, and projects in close collaboration with Global Category Managers

• Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: Act as a trusted strategic partner to local and global stakeholders across departments, driving early procurement involvement at the discovery phase to maximize commercial and operational outcomes

• Performance, Reporting & Savings Delivery: Monitor, report, and communicate category performance, savings, and KPIs to procurement leadership and cross-functional partners, ensuring the regional and category contribution to global savings and value-creation targets is achieved

• Functional Team Leadership & Capability Building: Provide functional leadership for team, including talent development, succession planning, and mid- to long-term capability roadmaps aligned with procurement leadership and local country management (where applicable)

• Value Creation & Target Delivery: Cascade global procurement objectives and deliver annual financial and non-financial targets through strategic sourcing, demand management, supplier relationship management, and supplier development initiatives across the region.

What you bring

• Degree in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Engineering, or similar

• More than 8 years of experience in indirect procurement roles, including at least 3 years in leadership, with a proven track record of managing teams and complex stakeholder environments

• Possess a broad, end-to-end strategic procurement skill set, with deep knowledge of indirect procurement processes, category strategy development, and implementation across South-East Asia

• Strong technical and commercial understanding of indirect materials, including IT software and applications, with the ability to identify and leverage key cost drivers

• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly articulate financial performance, savings, and underlying business drivers to various stakeholders, from operational teams to senior leadership

• Demonstrated capability in designing and embedding procurement programs and processes that integrate cost-savings strategies into the broader business context, including Southeast Asia region.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.